Now, I don’t think he’ll actually read this blog, which is par for the course since he doesn’t actually read anything. However, I do believe it’ll make us feel better and decrease the necessity of therapy or prescription medication that we may need to accept the harsh reality of the unmitigated disaster that has been the Bush presidency. And it doesn’t have to be just Bush; go ahead and write letters to anyone in his administration, or any political ally, for that matter. I’ll begin.
Dear President Bush:
You haven’t fooled me. I see right through your smirk, you know, the one you wear every time you’re lying. It’s funny that approximately 30% of the people have yet to see that. Yes, you can fool that 30% all of the time, and you can fool 90% some of the time (such as September of 2001), but “you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” That’s your harsh reality, Sir. And your legacy will be this:
- An unnecessary, unjust, immoral and illegal war based on incorrect intelligence at best, and outright lies at worst
- Gross incompetence in handling that war
- Rampant corruption and cronyism
- $3 trillion added to that national debt in seven years, the vast majority coming in the first six years, with a “fiscally conservative” (say that with straight face) Republican congress
- Soaring trade deficits, hitting $763.3 billion in 2006
- A severely weakened dollar
- A health care crisis you did nothing about – sky-rocketing costs leaving 47 million uninsured, millions more under insured and even fully insured middle class families in dire straights in the event of serious medical problems
- An energy crisis you did nothing about – especially the continued reliance on oil, the rapidly escalating costs of which are tricking throughout the economy
- Failed educational policy
- A severely degraded environment, jeopardizing the ecological sustainability necessary for future prosperity
I’m not sure if a worse president is even theoretically, let alone practically, possible.
